Mediabase Hot AC Top 50 of 2010

[Hot AC Archiver]

1 TRAIN Hey, Soul Sister Columbia
2 THE SCRIPT Breakeven Phonogenic/Epic
3 LADY ANTEBELLUM Need You Now Capitol
4 LIFEHOUSE Halfway Gone Geffen/Interscope
5 DAUGHTRY Life After You 19/RCA/RMG
6 KRIS ALLEN Live Like We’re Dying 19/Jive/JLG
7 KELLY CLARKSON Already Gone RCA/RMG
8 ADAM LAMBERT Whataya Want From Me RCA/RMG
9 ROB THOMAS Someday Emblem/Atlantic
10 MICHAEL BUBLE Haven’t Met You Yet Reprise
11 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody RCA/RMG
12 TRAIN If It’s Love Columbia
13 KATY PERRY f/SNOOP DOGG California Gurls Capitol
14 BLACK EYED PEAS I Gotta Feeling will.i.am/Interscope
15 COLBIE CAILLAT I Never Told You Universal Republic
16 OWL CITY Fireflies Universal Republic
17 JOHN MAYER Half Of My Heart Columbia
18 UNCLE KRACKER Smile Top Dog/BPG/Atlantic
19 JOHN MAYER Heartbreak Warfare Columbia
20 MAROON 5 Misery A&M/Octone/Interscope
21 LADY GAGA Bad Romance Interscope
22 ONEREPUBLIC All The Right Moves Mosley/Blackground/Interscope
23 SARA BAREILLES King Of Anything Epic
24 COLBIE CAILLAT Fallin’ For You Universal Republic
25 ROB THOMAS Mockingbird Emblem/Atlantic
26 DAUGHTRY September 19/RCA/RMG
27 NICKELBACK This Afternoon Atlantic/Roadrunner/RRP
28 MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD Say Hey (I Love You) Anti/Universal Republic
29 ORIANTHI According To You Geffen/Interscope
30 SHINEDOWN If You Only Knew Atlantic
31 TAYLOR SWIFT You Belong With Me Big Machine/Universal Republic
32 NICKELBACK Never Gonna Be Alone Atlantic/Roadrunner/RRP
33 DAUGHTRY No Surprise 19/RCA/RMG
34 PINK Glitter In The Air LaFace/JLG
35 NEON TREES Animal Mercury/IDJMG
36 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream Capitol
37 JASON DERULO In My Head Beluga Heights/Warner Bros.
38 KE$HA Tik Tok Kemosabe/RCA/RMG
39 LIFEHOUSE All In Geffen/Interscope
40 KINGS OF LEON Sex On Fire RCA/RMG
41 MIKE POSNER Cooler Than Me J/RMG
42 GOO GOO DOLLS Home Warner Bros.
43 ONEREPUBLIC Secrets Mosley/Blackground/Interscope
44 LADY GAGA Paparazzi Interscope
45 MUSE Uprising Warner Bros.
46 LADY GAGA f/BEYONCE Telephone Interscope
47 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS f/PITBULL I Like It Universal Republic
48 PARAMORE The Only Exception Fueled By Ramen/RRP
49 LADY GAGA Alejandro Interscope
50 RYAN STAR Breathe Atlantic/RRP

[musicfanpete]

Thank as always Hot AC Guru for posting the year-end Mediabase chart. :) Obviously this is the chart that goes by actual number of plays and does show some differences between this chart and the inverse point chart. I did notice a few songs still shown on the Allaccess rolling year-to-date chart that have been removed due to recurrent status.

The five songs that are still solidly in the top 50 that are not on the official year-end chart are "Gives You Hell", "Viva La Vida", "You Found Me", "Second Chance" and "Please Don't Leave Me". Do you know HAC Guru what the criteria is for inclusion on the current year-end chart? And if "I've Gotta Feeling" and "Say Hey (I Love You)" are on this chart, why is "Please Don't Leave Me" not on it? All three were still on the chart at the beginning of the year, but one gets left out. I don't get it!

Still though, removing the oldest songs makes sense since Paramore, Lady Gaga (twice), Ryan Star and Enrique Iglesias would have missed the top 50, which would have been a shame since they were all big hits. But I don't get the criteria for what gets removed.

Also interesting to observe are the differences between the chart compiling actual plays versus the inverse points chart. Songs with strong recurrent airplay like "Tik-Tok" and "Sex On Fire" performed much better than songs with weaker recurrent airplay like "Alejandro" and "The Only Exception". And Kelly Clarkson's "All I Ever Wanted" did not even make the this top 50 chart, which is why I prefer the inverse points type of charts that reflect actual chart performance and not recurrent airplay which tends to skew the results. But to each his or her own.

[Hot AC Archiver]

Thanks. Unfortunately, I don't have any information on how the chart was compiled.

[musicfanpete]

Dec 15, 2010 22:47:53 GMT -5 Hot AC Archiver said:

Thanks. Unfortunately, I don't have any information on how the chart was compiled.

No problem. There has to be some set rule on what songs get included and which ones are not eligible, but maybe it's only for Mediabase to know.